This year our class is taking on the challenge of trying to solve some of the issues that have plagued our globe over the past twenty years. This page is designed to record our journey along the way as well as serve as a dumping ground for any information that we may come across as we begin and continue to research a possible solution.
Global Issue #1: Homelessness
Solving the Issues of the World…One Friday at a Time
Group Names: Joe Hewes, Jack Dewberry
Global Issue #1: Our group has decided to fix the world wide issue of Homelessness/Poverty.
Background of Issue: (who?, what?, where?, when?, why?)
Who?
-People that have lost their money or cannot provide for themselves. The typical homeless person is male and single. Children in homeless families do worse in school and have lower attendance and more long-term absences. Some people have pets to accompany them. homeless people ussually from bad famalies.
-Also Blacks and Hispanics suffer higher rates of poverty than whites and Asians. The poverty rate for blacks in 1998 was 26.1 percent, statistically unchanged from the year before. The poverty rate for Hispanics was 25.6 percent, down from 27.1 percent. The rate for Asians and Pacific Islanders was 12.5 percent, down from 14 percent (not a statistically significant change). The poverty rate for non-Hispanic whites was 8.2 percent, down from 8.6 percent. Even though the poverty rate for whites is lower than for other groups, because whites make up the largest share of the population, nearly half of the poor (46 percent) were non-Hispanic whites in 1998.
What?
-Children and youths who are sharing the housing of other people due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason; are living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations; are living in emergency or transitional shelters; are abandoned in hospitals; or are awaiting foster care placement
Where?
-On the city streets, sleeping under bridges,in cardboard boxes, and shelter. Usually in big cities where there is more people. They can live anywhere they want but usually they are in places that are poor, dark, and not in use.
When?
-At Nighttime and or in secluded places. Or in the day they are sleeping under bridges. They are sleeping cause during the night they are scavenging for food and robbing for money.
Why?
-Poor parenting, Bad decisions, Addicted to Drug, and Uneducated. A reason for Homelessness is business failure and or robbed.
Costs: human and/or financial cost?
-More people on streets usually stealing and or robbing other people and they live in peoples residents while the people are out on vacation.
-The other cost is that if they are trying to get in jail for food and a cell that would mean they are filling up jail and that is also causing a higher crime rate.
Previous Efforts Put Into Place to Help Resolve Issue:
-Trying to help them out by lending them some money and giving them shelters.
-Permanent housing provides a “base” for people to move out of poverty. Many organizations that address the homeless population have shifted their focus from emergency shelter to prevention. In part this shift is a result of the McKinney Homeless Assistance Act of 1987, the federal law that provides funding for homeless assistance programs. The law emphasizes “continuums of care”—regional systems that provide services and housing for an entire range of needs, from medical care to employment.
Reasons why previous efforts to help resolve issue have failed:
-The reasons for the failure of efforts is that homeless people usually are drug addicts and they really don't go along with the deal of using the money towards food and not drugs. Some people don't want or believe in giving their hard earned money toward people that have probably stole from them or don't want to be helped.
Areas of concern on reaching your desired solution to the global issue:
-There are too many homeless people that are around the world and that are drug addicts. They will not cooperate if people even try to help them out.Some of them are greedy and are not trustworthy either. If you give them money they will usually not use it for the purpose that you told them to use it for instead they will go out and buy drugs and booze.
Jack and Joe’s Media:
This picture shows how bad the sleeping arrangements were for the homeless people.
This picture shows how bad the conditions were for a homeless individuals pet dog.
In this picture a U.S veteran needs help or maybe a little push in his life to get him on his feet.
Homeless Interview Questions
How did you get in this situation?
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Where are you currently sleeping?
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Do you have any other family members?
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How long have you been in this situation?
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Looking back, what would you have done differently?
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Are you OK with where you are at in life are would you rather have CHANGE?
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Homeless Shelter #
Youth Connections King's Manor College Park, GA
404-559-9297
Covenant House - Transitional Men's Housing Forest Park, GA
Global Issue #1: Homelessness
Solving the Issues of the World…One Friday at a Time
Group Names: Joe Hewes, Jack Dewberry
Global Issue #1: Our group has decided to fix the world wide issue of Homelessness/Poverty.
Background of Issue: (who?, what?, where?, when?, why?)
Who?
-People that have lost their money or cannot provide for themselves. The typical homeless person is male and single. Children in homeless families do worse in school and have lower attendance and more long-term absences. Some people have pets to accompany them. homeless people ussually from bad famalies.
-Also Blacks and Hispanics suffer higher rates of poverty than whites and Asians. The poverty rate for blacks in 1998 was 26.1 percent, statistically unchanged from the year before. The poverty rate for Hispanics was 25.6 percent, down from 27.1 percent. The rate for Asians and Pacific Islanders was 12.5 percent, down from 14 percent (not a statistically significant change). The poverty rate for non-Hispanic whites was 8.2 percent, down from 8.6 percent. Even though the poverty rate for whites is lower than for other groups, because whites make up the largest share of the population, nearly half of the poor (46 percent) were non-Hispanic whites in 1998.
What?
-Children and youths who are sharing the housing of other people due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason; are living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations; are living in emergency or transitional shelters; are abandoned in hospitals; or are awaiting foster care placement
Where?
-On the city streets, sleeping under bridges,in cardboard boxes, and shelter. Usually in big cities where there is more people. They can live anywhere they want but usually they are in places that are poor, dark, and not in use.
When?
-At Nighttime and or in secluded places. Or in the day they are sleeping under bridges. They are sleeping cause during the night they are scavenging for food and robbing for money.
Why?
-Poor parenting, Bad decisions, Addicted to Drug, and Uneducated. A reason for Homelessness is business failure and or robbed.Costs: human and/or financial cost?
-More people on streets usually stealing and or robbing other people and they live in peoples residents while the people are out on vacation.
-The other cost is that if they are trying to get in jail for food and a cell that would mean they are filling up jail and that is also causing a higher crime rate.
Previous Efforts Put Into Place to Help Resolve Issue:
-Trying to help them out by lending them some money and giving them shelters.
-Permanent housing provides a “base” for people to move out of poverty. Many organizations that address the homeless population have shifted their focus from emergency shelter to prevention. In part this shift is a result of the McKinney Homeless Assistance Act of 1987, the federal law that provides funding for homeless assistance programs. The law emphasizes “continuums of care”—regional systems that provide services and housing for an entire range of needs, from medical care to employment.
Reasons why previous efforts to help resolve issue have failed:
-The reasons for the failure of efforts is that homeless people usually are drug addicts and they really don't go along with the deal of using the money towards food and not drugs. Some people don't want or believe in giving their hard earned money toward people that have probably stole from them or don't want to be helped.
Areas of concern on reaching your desired solution to the global issue:
-There are too many homeless people that are around the world and that are drug addicts. They will not cooperate if people even try to help them out.Some of them are greedy and are not trustworthy either. If you give them money they will usually not use it for the purpose that you told them to use it for instead they will go out and buy drugs and booze.
Jack and Joe’s Media:
This picture shows how bad the sleeping arrangements were for the homeless people.
This picture shows how bad the conditions were for a homeless individuals pet dog.
In this picture a U.S veteran needs help or maybe a little push in his life to get him on his feet.
Homeless Interview Questions
How did you get in this situation?
-
Where are you currently sleeping?
-
Do you have any other family members?
-
How long have you been in this situation?
-
Looking back, what would you have done differently?
-
Are you OK with where you are at in life are would you rather have CHANGE?
-
Homeless Shelter #Youth Connections King's Manor College Park, GA
404-559-9297
Covenant House - Transitional Men's Housing Forest Park, GA
404-449-7831